The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I

Saturday — May 1916 —

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Saturday
May 1916

To Beatrice Campbell

… I am going to Cornwall on Monday to Sunnyside Cottage, Mylor, near Penryn, and I will write you from there. Do write to me, too, darling, and tell me the news.

I arrived at Paddington to find the station crowded with Sinn Feiners who had just arrived from Wormwood Scrubbs and were being taken, on the points of innumerable bayonets to some other prison.

Heavens! What a sight it was—but they all looked very happy and they all wore bunches of green ribbon or green badges. I very nearly joined them, and I rather wish I had.

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Title: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Editor: John Middleton Murry

Publication details: Constable and Company Limited, 1930

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

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